Development

As a developer, I spend a lot of time working in the terminal. Besides starting long-running daemons such as web servers in the terminal, I also use Git, Vim, and other command line tools throughout the day, and terminal sessions tend to pile up. On any given day, I can have more than a dozen terminal sessions open at a time, and that’s just for one project. Read more on Setting Up a Project Workspace in Tmux…

I’ve been helping out with interviews recently at Atomic, and one question I tend to ask candidates is: “What does good code look like?” I thought that this would be a softball, a question that any candidate with a love of the craft would breeze through. What I’ve found is that even developers who write really beautiful code often don’t have much of a response to the question. So here’s mine, in four points.

On the first post in this series, someone left a comment asking, “What do you do if you want a custom segue transition for the unwind?” I thought that was a great topic to cover since most people only worry about the transitions going forward on a navigation stack and don’t think about how to transition when you unwind several layers back.

The KISS principle is has been highly touted in software design and development for years and stressed in the realm of Agile software development. Most developers desire a simplistic code base and put some thought into it while designing and implementing code… to an extent.

Under the pressures of real development cycles and needing to deliver under frequently too-short timelines, simplicity sometimes is placed on the back burner and becomes technical debt that frequently comes back to bite us. And of course at the least desired times. Read more on Keeping it Simple… Again and Again…